- spooky
inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
He kept looking round and sniffing and saying,
“H’m. Looks a bit spooky after all. Smells like ghosts, too.”
- crusader
someone who is a diligent and ardent advocate of a cause
“I believe you’ve got it. In that sense it really was hundreds of years ago that we lived
in Cair Paravel. And now we’re coming back to Narnia just as if we were Crusaders or Anglo-Saxons or Ancient
Britons or someone coming back to modern England!”
- stocky
having a short and solid form or stature
Like most Dwarfs he was very stocky and deep-chested.
- flounder
move clumsily or struggle to move, as in mud or water
He floundered away to the far bank and Peter knew that Susan’s arrow had
struck on his helmet.
- gist
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
But the gist of the story, as they knew it in the end, was as follows.
- ravenous
extremely hungry
He would have made much
more fuss about this if he had not by now been so ravenously hungry.
- hilt
the handle of a sword or dagger
(Peter’s
sword would have been sharper, but a sword is very inconvenient for this sort of work because you can’t hold it
anywhere lower than the hilt.)
- doleful
filled with or evoking sadness
“There’s only apples,” said Lucy dolefully.
- ember
a hot, smoldering fragment of wood left from a fire
But he cheered up when it came to lighting the fire and
showing them how to roast the fresh pavenders in the embers.
- twitch
make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion
There were two people on board, one rowing, the
other sitting in the stern and holding a bundle that twitched and moved as if it were alive.